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Posted by: stillanon ( )
Date: July 03, 2024 03:39PM

Aficionado sounds better that "Train Freak", right?

Big Boy 4014 is here!

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2024/07/03/largest-steam-locomotive-comes-to-utah/

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Posted by: tumwater ( )
Date: July 03, 2024 04:09PM

GNPE

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Posted by: Brother Of Jerry ( )
Date: July 03, 2024 07:48PM

Dave doesn't know that.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: July 03, 2024 08:45PM

    I've ridden both the City of Los Angeles and the City of New Orleans.

    I forget which one made the run from SLC to LA, but I rode that one, too, but I got off in Vegas, right there at the Union Station, at the head of Fremont St.

    There was no gambling on any of the trains I took in and out of Las Vegas.

    Good thing I'm only as old as I want to be!

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Posted by: stillanon ( )
Date: July 03, 2024 11:06PM

Yes, but you ain't that old. This is a steam engine locomotive. It's kind of a big deal in the train world.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/03/2024 11:06PM by stillanon.

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Posted by: messygoop ( )
Date: July 04, 2024 12:04AM

I saw the 4014 when it toured the lone star state. It's very impressive.

I also watched the Canadian Pacific steam engine which also came by last month.

MG

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Posted by: Phantom Shadow ( )
Date: July 04, 2024 12:33AM

I have a thing about steam engines, including the old railroads. Ah, the stories I could tell about my family history. Just a hint: in 2012 I was in Dartmouth, England, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the invention of the steam engines by Thomas Newcomen. DH and I were among the few Americans present for those 2-3 days.

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: July 04, 2024 01:39AM

I rode the City Of Portland from Portland to Pocatello and ate dinner in the dome diner. The good old days.

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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 04, 2024 03:09AM

I’ve worked on each of the Western Big Four;

UP, NP, Milwaukee & GN. the only biggie I missed (or missed me) was the SP&S which never operated in Seattle or King County…

The GN was my favorite, my routes included between Vancouver BC & Portland, east to Spokane, & on the Milwaukee to MORTON, WA & Othello, WA; Bellingham, WA. & Portland.



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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 04, 2024 07:43PM

Both!

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: July 06, 2024 02:56PM


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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 06, 2024 04:18PM

the UP. has tracks to Seattle and a fair sized yard but most from Portland is track rights on BNSF.

There is one hill enroute, what about water consumption?

I'm sure lots of rail fans in- close to Wenatchee would love to see a crew change there!!

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: July 06, 2024 04:26PM

UP has no tracks to Seattle. It gained access to Seattle with trackage rights on NP. UP owns its own yard in Seattle though.

I rode a Great Northern passenger train from Seattle to Portland. Bet you didn't know that train existed.

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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 06, 2024 07:41PM

P.S. the U.P. owned tracks began at Black River Jct. South of Seattle.

The Milwaukee yard with the overhead crane for TOFC / COFC shared name with the adjacent N.P. yard, Stacy Street; the Milwaukee spotted frt cars in the now re-purposed Sears Building on Utah Avenue...

The Milwaukee & U.P. shared Union Station which is (was) a short walk from King St. Station, GN & NP shared.

Now city of Seattle owns King Street nicely renewed, rents space to Amtrak.



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Posted by: Beth ( )
Date: July 08, 2024 01:29PM

King Station is lovely now. It’s not 30th Street Station, but what is? ;)

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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 06, 2024 05:15PM

There were same day gone & back passenger trains to each Vancouver BC & Portland which I occasionally worked since I was on the extra board.

There used to be a daylight passenger train to Spokane but that was discontinued while I was in elementary school (50s).

The local GN passenger trains between Spokane & Seattle met at Cashmere, Wa where applets & cutlets are made.

Last time I was in Cashmere,2023, the depot was still standing.

I have a few GN timetables, both employee & for passengers.



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Posted by: Caffiend nli ( )
Date: July 06, 2024 11:54PM

GNPE's focus is on the PNW trains, routes, and history. DtA's main thing is steam locomotives.
But I'm sure there's lots of overlap.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: July 07, 2024 11:42AM

I’m forever confusing overlap with gunnysack; who is which?

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Posted by: Caffiend nli ( )
Date: July 07, 2024 09:15PM


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Posted by: SoCal Apostate ( )
Date: July 07, 2024 12:44AM

They both went on strike 7/1/1922 with young families to support when the RR imposed a 12% pay cut.

My paternal GF became a cattle rancher and didn't go back.

My maternal GF went to Palmer Chiropractic College in Iowa, but came back without the means to open a practice and went back to the RR in either late 1924 or early 1925.

He worked in the Glenns Ferry Idaho roundhouse for the remainder of his career. He oversaw the transition from Coal-fired steam to diesel-electric in the 1940's and 1950's.

I never got to meet that grandfather. He died from lung cancer in December 1965, six months before I was Born.

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: July 08, 2024 12:38AM

Big Boy in Evanston and Salt Lake ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSr_E7rQoz4

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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 08, 2024 01:08AM

I was on one of the last electric runs on the Milwaukee, we left tacoma but didn’t get very far past Renton…. I’ve forgotten how that resolved, it was early 1970 as I recall…

Not too long later, the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad did an aborted attempt to abandon the Pacific Extension, but I believe that attempt failed; later it was a full-blown bankruptcy. Some parts became trails, some parts became parts of the SOO Railroad.

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Posted by: GNPE ( )
Date: July 08, 2024 09:57PM

I took my lunch beside RAYONIER # 10 at Forks today, LIMA built gear driven logging engine; the build date wasn’t shown on the information panel.
Western states had many logging railroads, I’ve hiked a few of the abandoned ROWs.

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